By Daud Olatunji

ABEOKUTA—The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Ogun State chapter, has threatened a showdown with the Ogun State government over the sack of five officials of ministry of education and an examiner.

The CDHR gave the state government a-seven day ultimatum to furnish it with the specific Public Service Rules violated by the dismissed English Language teacher, Jolaolu Adegbenro, to allow it decide its next line of action.

The body however, pleaded for the five officials of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, saying they will benefit when Adegbenro’s matter was resolved.

Addressing newsmen yesterday at the Nigeria Union of Journalists secretariat at Iwe Iroyin, Abeokuta, the state chairman, CDHR, Folarin Olayinka, described Adegbenro’s sack as “unlawful.”

Olayinka, noted that following the investigation the human rights body conducted on the matter, the alleged offensive summary passage in the examination paper did not refer to any state government, but, rather to promote academic excellence among the pupils.

Adegbenro who was an examiner and five others in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology were sacked last week by the state government over an alleged offensive comprehension passage in the 2014/2015 Unified Examination for the Senior Secondary School.